The Author's POV

"Thank you."

Amanda replied with a soft smile as she heard Ren's words.

Directly coming out of her own match she was quite tired, however, thinking back at her own mother's situation, she quickly discarded all of her tiredness and chose to visit Ren.

Aside from the fact that she wanted to make sure he was okay, she also wanted to see if he could help her.

Amanda understood her situation well.

She knew that her mother's situation was dire, and she also knew that if she did nothing the problem wouldn't solve itself.

Instead of keeping the problem to herself, she took it upon herself to try asking for help, and the first person that came to her mind was Ren.

She did also think about asking Kevin, but she felt more comfortable asking Ren first.

Even though she was comfortably around Kevin, she felt more at peace when she was around Ren.

Furthermore, having talked to him, Amanda knew that he had just come back from the dwarven domain. She also knew that his relationship with them was good, and therefore, after carefully thinking things through she decided to ask him if he had a way to solve the mind-breaker curse.

Her hopes were low, but nevertheless, it wouldn't hurt asking.

Sitting down, placing both of her hands on her laps, Amanda took a good look at the place before her eyes suddenly paused on a small black cat sitting by the edge of the window.

"Pudding?"

She called out in surprise. A flood of memories suddenly flashed through her head as the surprise in her eyes grew only bigger.

'How is she here?' She thought at first, but after that, staring at her fluffy fur, her right hand instantly twitched as she had a sudden urge to pet her.

However, the moment Amanda's words faded, pudding's body suddenly twitched as the room froze for a second before a wry smile appeared on Ren's face.

Scratching the back of his head, Ren forced a laugh before scooching his body away from pudding.

"Haha, yes, it's pudding."

He turned his head to look away from her.

Amanda tilted her head once she saw this, but recalling the purpose of her visit, she stopped paying attention to pudding and cleared her throat.

"Keum…keum…"

Her soft coughs rang through the room, attracting Ren's attention. Sensing the shift in Amanda's mood, he sat up straight.

"What's wrong?"

Brushing her hair behind her ear, Amanda softly said.

"...Do you remember the conversation we were having back at the tournament stands?"

"Tournament stands?"

Placing his hand on his chin, a thoughtful look appeared on his face as he tried his best to recall the previous conversation he had with her.

As he was thinking, gazing at him from where she was sitting, Amanda took a good look at him.

'He's changed.'

if she had to say something, it was that the current Ren was a

only were his facial features sharper and more chiseled out, but so was his body

of her cheeks heated up forcing her to turn her head to

the embarrassment did not last for long as Ren's loud

mentioned something about

face quickly

Amanda

"Yes."

happen to

he raised his head and carefully looked around

here, but

help but smile at his actions. The way he was moving his head around to look for her mother was funny. After all, there was no one else but her

was clearly overacting for nothing. But it was because of such things that she was comfortable with

long as the smile soon wiped away from

"...She's sick."

moving. Following this, worry and

Leaning forward, he asked.

may ask, what happened to

nodded her head. She had already braced herself

before she started to recount

to this strange place, to how she told her about the situation with her mother, and how she had saved the queen's life. As she spoke, she made sure to not miss out a

the place, I saw my mother resting inside of a large capsule. Although she didn't look exactly like in

heaviness in her chest slowly started to lift away as her words became

had been lifted away from her,

the mind breaker curse and that if nothing is done, she will forever be trapped in the capsule, without any hope of

long before she finally finished recounting everything. With her head

her fist, she softly

my current situation and that I'm probably adding to your burdens, but I'm glad you listened to what

and sad smile soon appeared

like a venting session. From the beginning, she never placed much hope in Ren being able to

preparing herself to leave, her

***

"This..."

was looking back at

me as she recounted the events that led to her finding out that her mother was alive, I really

such

to my mind. Moreover, what was even more shocking was the fact that I didn't know of such an important

the story. 'Was it purposely left out by the entity?' I thought to myself as I tried to make heads or tails about the

that I needed to take this matter into consideration. As far-fetched as it was, the possibility of it biting me in the ass in the

was then that I suddenly recalled something important. Focusing my attention back towards Amanda who looked

I know of a way to cure

"Huh?"

Amanda to react, but the moment she processed those words she stood up in shock and looked

"Really?"

asked with a voice filled with hope. I

"Yes, I do."

past when I went to Immorra with Kevin to collect the cure, I would've never thought that I

think about it, wasn't there someone that was supposed to be

went to Immorra was to collect the Xurin fruits in order to heal someone from the mind-breaker

everything together, Kevin went to Immorra when he was ranked, and the timing perfectly coincided with the current timing...was